Synopsis:
Sayonara Color is the fifth film by Takenaka Naoto, one of Japan's most
respected character actors and the director of Muno no Hito - Nowhere Man and
Tokyo Biyori. Shohei (TAKENAKA Naoto) works as a doctor in a sea-side hospital.
One day a new patient is admitted to the hospital with ovarian cancer. Shohei is
surprised to recognize Michiko (HARADA Tomoyo), his first love from high school.
Shohei has been leading a dissolute bachelor life, paying for the company of
high school girls and dating an older woman who works in a local bar, but in
reality for the last twenty years he has not forgotten Michiko. Unfortunately,
though Michiko doesn't remember him at all.

Shohei becomes more and more
and more persistent in his attempts to get her to recall their past. At first
she is annoyed by his overtures, but gradually warms to the doctor. Under
Shohei's kind and patient care Michiko's condition improves and her cancer
becomes operable. The operation is a success, but now Shohei himself learns that
he has terminal cancer.